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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mirko Bagaric, Professor of Law, Swinburne University of Technology The final report of the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry, issued by former judge Jennifer Coate, outlines monumental errors made by the Victorian government and its public servants. Despite this, the governmental failings that led to a second wave ... <a title="Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/hotel-quarantine-report-blasts-government-failures-but-political-fallout-is-likely-to-be-minimal-152175/" aria-label="Read more about Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimal">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris James, Lecturer, Centre for Hypersonics, The University of Queensland There are many things humanity must overcome before any return journey to Mars is launched. The two major players are NASA and SpaceX, which work together intimately on missions to the International Space Station but have competing ... <a title="How to get people from Earth to Mars and safely back again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/how-to-get-people-from-earth-to-mars-and-safely-back-again-150167/" aria-label="Read more about How to get people from Earth to Mars and safely back again">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Research Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne Most of us can’t wait to see the back of 2020, a year that has been memorable for all the wrong reasons. While 2020 provided the ultimate stress test for countries to discover their vulnerabilities, we can ... <a title="Coronavirus, China and climate: where Australia’s foreign relations attention will be in 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/coronavirus-china-and-climate-where-australias-foreign-relations-attention-will-be-in-2021-150158/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus, China and climate: where Australia’s foreign relations attention will be in 2021">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claus T. Christophersen, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University It’s that time of year again, with Christmas parties, end-of-year get-togethers and holiday catch-ups on the horizon for many of us — all COVID-safe, of course. All that party food and takeaway, however, can have consequences for your gut ... <a title="How to prepare and protect your gut health over Christmas and the silly season" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/how-to-prepare-and-protect-your-gut-health-over-christmas-and-the-silly-season-151673/" aria-label="Read more about How to prepare and protect your gut health over Christmas and the silly season">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne Last month I came across a heartbreaking sight: a group of people standing around a young female kangaroo with horrific injuries. She appeared to have been hit by a ... <a title="10 million animals are hit on our roads each year. Here’s how you can help them (and steer clear of them) these holidays" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/10-million-animals-are-hit-on-our-roads-each-year-heres-how-you-can-help-them-and-steer-clear-of-them-these-holidays-149733/" aria-label="Read more about 10 million animals are hit on our roads each year. Here’s how you can help them (and steer clear of them) these holidays">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Professor of Popular Culture, Auckland University of Technology Not long to go now before many of us get to spread some good tidings and joy as we celebrate Christmas. The main ways we understand and mark the occasion seem to be rather similar across the ... <a title="The borrowed customs and traditions of Christmas celebrations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/the-borrowed-customs-and-traditions-of-christmas-celebrations-149527/" aria-label="Read more about The borrowed customs and traditions of Christmas celebrations">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University An end-of-year political poll appeared recently and virtually no one paid it any attention. After a year of high-stakes health, economic and electoral events, it was a sign New Zealanders are on the other side of something. It was a ... <a title="2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/2020-hindsight-can-new-zealand-apply-the-political-lessons-of-covid-19-in-the-year-ahead-151830/" aria-label="Read more about 2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead?">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
By Laurens Ikinia A journalist who sailed on board the bombed environmental ship Rainbow Warrior, was arrested at gunpoint in New Caledonia while investigating French military garrisons in pro-independence Kanak villages, and reported on social justice issues across the Pacific has stepped down as founding director of the Pacific Media Centre. Professor David Robie, 75, ... <a title="Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/pacific-media-centre-founder-takes-on-new-social-justice-journalism-role/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2020
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist Covid-19 vaccinations begin in the Northern Mariana Islands this weekend, but it is not yet clear when other Pacific countries will have access to a vaccine. The Northern Marianas, which is a US territory, was expecting 5,000 doses of the The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to arrive during the ... <a title="Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/20/covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-starts-in-parts-of-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The most important changes in Scott Morrison’s limited reshuffle are centred on two vital and controversial issues – aged care and trade – that will severely test the government in coming months. Aged care has been elevated to cabinet and ... <a title="View from The Hill: aged care to cabinet, Tehan to trade in Morrison’s modest reshuffle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/view-from-the-hill-aged-care-to-cabinet-tehan-to-trade-in-morrisons-modest-reshuffle-152322/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: aged care to cabinet, Tehan to trade in Morrison’s modest reshuffle">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University It’s the last thing anyone wanted to hear, a week out from Christmas. But the growing cluster of COVID-19 cases linked to Sydney’s northern beaches has put Australia on alert. There are now 28 cases associated with the cluster, with ... <a title="Australia on alert as Sydney’s northern beaches COVID cluster grows, linked to US strain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/australia-on-alert-as-sydneys-northern-beaches-covid-cluster-grows-linked-to-us-strain-152310/" aria-label="Read more about Australia on alert as Sydney’s northern beaches COVID cluster grows, linked to US strain">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Another day, another announcement about a COVID-19 vaccine. Whether that’s talk of results from clinical trials, emergency approval or plans for countries to prioritise certain groups for vaccination. But we still don’t know if current vaccines prevent disease ... <a title="A COVID-19 vaccine that prevents both the disease and viral transmission is the aim. Until then, here’s what we need to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/a-covid-19-vaccine-that-prevents-both-the-disease-and-viral-transmission-is-the-aim-until-then-heres-what-we-need-to-do-151839/" aria-label="Read more about A COVID-19 vaccine that prevents both the disease and viral transmission is the aim. Until then, here’s what we need to do">Read more</a>
